Daily Archives: 24th April 2013

Freedom and high anxiety in the USA

24th April 2013   USA and Canada, Highlights
Anxiety Lawrence Davidson says US-type freedom has encouraged the heartless disregard of poverty, allowed the evolution of interest groups that work against national interests and produced a media environment that breeds exaggeration. Read more [...]

Lebanon: even coffee is political

24th April 2013   Arab World, Highlights
Lebanon against sectarianism Jamal Kanj says 23 years after its civil war, Lebanon is neither wiser nor less divided, and with a political system perpetuating the national divide and failing to fix the country’s ills. Read more [...]

European Football rewards Israeli racism

24th April 2013   European stooges, Highlights
Kick Israeli racism out of UEFA Stuart Littlewood wonders how the European football association UEFA can square its commitment to zero tolerance of racism with allowing the under-21 finals to be held in racist, apartheid Israel. Read more [...]